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[ephemeral.eth @dannig6]

John doesn’t chase . John always sets stop loss above his entry price . John isn’t greedy . John never Yolo . John never spends the amount he’s not willing to lose . John always takes profit. John doesn’t blame anyone for his own decision. John is green This is gold 🤣

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Ellie Lobel’s Final Days and the killer Bee Swarm That Saved Her Life

June 2011, Ellie Lobel, a 45-year-old nuclear physicist with a PhD, lay in palliative care in Wildomar, California, ready to die. For 15 years, chronic Lyme disease had ravaged her body, stealing her strength, her clarity, and her hope. Diagnosed too late after contracting the illness at 27, she endured relentless pain, neurological fog, and multiple organ failure.

By 2011, her body was shutting down, and she had accepted her fate, moving to California to spend her final days in peace. But fate had other plans. In a moment that seemed like a cruel twist, a swarm of Africanized bees—known as “killer bees”—attacked her, stinging her repeatedly. What should have been a fatal blow for a woman with a severe bee venom allergy became, against all odds, the turning point that brought her back from the brink. This is the story of that harrowing day, its aftermath, and the extraordinary recovery that followed.

The Attack: A Swarm in the Final Moments

Ellie’s days in palliative care were marked by stillness and surrender. Bedridden, she could barely stand, her body a shadow of the vibrant scientist she once was. Her mind, once sharp, was clouded by the neurological damage of Lyme disease. She had a known severe allergy to bee stings, a trauma rooted in a near-fatal anaphylactic reaction at age two that left her swollen, gasping, and hospitalized. Death, she believed, was close, and she was ready to let go.

Less than a week after arriving in Wildomar, Ellie asked her caregiver to help her outside for a fleeting moment of fresh air. Propped up near a broken wall and a tree, she stood unsteadily, her frail frame barely holding her upright. Without warning, a sharp pain struck her head—a single Africanized bee had stung her. Before she could react, a deafening buzz enveloped her as a swarm descended. These were no ordinary bees; Africanized bees are notorious for their aggression, attacking in relentless waves. Ellie, too weak to run or fight, was defenseless as the bees targeted her head, face, and neck, their stingers piercing her scalp, ears, and delicate skin.
She felt the first stings—5, maybe 15—each one a searing jolt of pain, like fire under her skin. Then the sheer number overwhelmed her, the buzzing and burning blending into a nightmarish haze. Her caregiver, terrified, bolted, leaving Ellie alone in the swarm’s fury. The attack seemed to last an eternity, though it was likely only minutes. Ellie didn’t try to escape; in her mind, this was the end she had been waiting for. The bees eventually scattered, leaving her slumped, swollen, and stinging, her face and ears grotesquely inflamed.
Her caregiver returned, pleading to rush her to a hospital, but Ellie refused. She was certain the stings would trigger anaphylaxis—her throat would close, her heart would stop, and it would be over. She wanted it to be over. She locked herself in her room, told her caregiver to “collect the body tomorrow,” and waited for death. Alone, in excruciating pain, she braced for the end, her swollen ears throbbing, her body feverish, her mind resigned.

She felt feverish, her body wracked with what she later believed was a Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction, a violent response to dying bacteria releasing toxins, common in Lyme disease treatment.

By the third day, Ellie noticed a change. The fog that had clouded her mind for years—the mental haze that stole her ability to think clearly—was lifting.

The bee stings, which should have killed her, were somehow healing her. She began researching, desperate to understand why. A 1997 study from Rocky Mountain Laboratories revealed that melittin, the main component of bee venom, could destroy Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria causing Lyme disease, by paralyzing it and breaking its membranes. Ellie believed the massive dose of venom from the swarm had obliterated the bacteria in her body.

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[rain @redactedrain]

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[ephemeral.eth @dannig6]

@StockPatternPro I see $180 but not that far?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

💯

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Marc Andreessen on what makes Elon impossible to compete with

“I’m not aware of another CEO who operates the way he does.”

Marc believes you have to go back in history to the industrialists of the late 1800s and early 1900s to find founders comparable to Elon Musk (e.g. Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Watson, Andrew Mellon, Cornelius Vanderbilt).

“Those guys ran very similar to the way Elon runs things… The top line thing is just this incredible devotion from the leader of the company to fully, deeply understand what the company does, to be completely knowledgeable about every aspect of it, and to be in the trenches and talking directly to the people who do the work to deeply understand the issues. And then be the lead problem solver in the organization. Basically what Elon does is he shows up every week at each of his companies, identifies the biggest problem the company’s having that week and he fixes it. He does that every week for 52 weeks in a row and then each of his companies has solved the 52 biggest problems that year.”

Marc juxtaposes this process with more conventional CEOs who respond to problems with planning, meetings, and reports.

The other crucial factor in Elon’s success that Marc points to is his ability to attract incredible talent:

“Many of the best people in the world want to work with him because if you work with Elon the expectations are through the roof in terms of your level of performance. And he is going to know who you are and what you’ve done. He’s going to know what you’ve done this week and if you’re underperforming. And he may fire you in the meeting if you’re not carrying your weight. But if you are as committed to the company as he is, and hard working and capable, many people who have worked for him say that they had the best experience of their lives.”

Marc recalls a famous line from somebody who joined SpaceX from another aerospace company and said, “It’s like being dropped into a shocking zone of competence. Everybody around me is so absolutely competent.”

And lastly, as Marc argues, Elon’s technical ability is another competitive advantage versus non-technical CEOs:

“When he identifies the bottleneck, he goes and talks to the line engineers who understand the technical nature of the bottleneck… He’s not asking the VP of Engineering to ask the Director of Engineering to ask the manager to ask the individual contributor to write a report that’s to be reviewed in three weeks. He doesn’t do that. What he does is he goes and personally finds the engineer who actually has the knowledge about the thing, and then he sits in the room with that engineer and fixes the problem with them. And again, this is why he inspires such incredible loyalty from especially the technical people who he works with. They’re just like, ‘Wow, if I’m up against a problem I don’t know how to solve, freaking Elon Musk is going to show up in his Gulfstream and he’s going to sit with me overnight in front of the keyboard or in front of the manufacturing line and help me figure this out.’”

Video source: @ChrisWillx (2024)

[ephemeral.eth @dannig6]

@BoredElonMusk yep, there's always loopholes in laws, and there are also loopholes in social situations/norms.

[ephemeral.eth @dannig6]

@Deenobrown123 @jcubhilton @TeslaBoomerMama Was TSLA going to produce its own chips? I read that years ago, but it seems like it never happened and they always used NVDA.

[Ayden Miller @AydenMMiller]

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Looking forward to becoming a FUTURE MILLIONAIRE!

[EliteOptionsTrader @EliteOptions2]

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I’m not celebrating at full retard levels yet with $420/share because I know that this $TSLA run up is not finished.

We could hit $500, $694.20, $800, and $1000/share sooner than people think.

I have warned people many times that they shouldn’t play games with timing and need to stay in the stock. Here I am at nearly $20 million in $TSLA stock and all I did was leave my shares alone over the last 4 years (well, I sold my house and bought 10,000 shares at around $125 two years ago).

[David G. Greenfield @NYCGreenfield]

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This guy tracked the location of the murderer who killed the CEO of UnitedHealthcare via his @CitiBikeNYC ride which has GPS.

[Baptiste @BaptisteVicini]

He was building the world's first complete sustainable energy ecosystem:

• Cars powered by electricity
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All working as one.

[Art of Life 🦋 @Art0fLife_]

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